Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Challenge by Kim Iverson Headlee Giveaway & Excerpt

The Challenge

by Kim Iverson Headlee

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GENRE:
Historical Fantasy Romance

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BLURB:

The gauntlet is thrown. One must die. Refusal is not an option.

Arthur the High King of Breatein has fallen captive of a longtime enemy,
the Saxon warrior-princess Camilla, who lusts to avenge the death of her
betrothed at Gyan’s hands and will stop at nothing, even the black arts, to
achieve her goal. Because Gyan and Arthur have grown estranged, she fears that
Arthur may side with Camilla and make her his new queen.

To meet Camilla’s challenge, Gyan must face all her demons—public as
well as private.

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Excerpt One:

With a shudder Gyan recalled the rumor that Camilla had enlisted demonic
aid…

She banished those thoughts, and their attendant fears, by pondering the
irony that Camilla had tried to strike at her through Arthur. It might have
worked, once. The passion that had colored the early years of their marriage
was still celebrated in song throughout Breatein and Caledon.

These days, she wasn’t singing.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern
Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted
wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old
house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth
century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet.

Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendent
of twentieth-century Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend
of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how
Babushka escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband will
most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s novels. Another novel in the queue
will involve her husband’s ancestor, the seventh-century proto-Viking king of the
Swedish colony in Russia.

For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of
work to do in creating her projected 8-book Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove
Chronicles, and other novels clamoring for attention. She has been a published
novelist since 1999, beginning with the original editions of Dawnflight (Sonnet
Books, Simon & Schuster) and Liberty (writing as Kimberly Iverson, HQN
Books, Harlequin).